Kevin E Mchugh
Biographic Data
| ID | 1473685 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin E Mchugh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin E |
| FAMILY NAME | Mchugh |
| SIGNATURE | MCHUGH K E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6156-3363 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 389 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Becoming-elemental - a thermal imaginary in the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene problematic calls for imaginative aesthetic experiments fostering more-than-human thought and sensibilities. In this thought experiment, I draw on a sensing device in conjuring a thermal imaginary that decenters the human, espying a glimpse of a strange and uncanny world-without-us. The imaginary is a speculative performance in elemental attunement - becoming-molecular, becoming-imperceptible in the generative potentia of planeta…
Olfactory Attunements and Technologies: Exposing the Affective Economy of Scent
We conceive olfaction as a sense of the elemental—a term encompassing odors and the organs that detect them. Contributing to efforts in elemental thinking, we enlist olfactory attunement as a sensual and speculative mode of aesthetic orientation, an analytical frame for attending to scented matter(s) in the air. Moving in malodorous urban airs of the American Northeast, we encounter new technologies and techniques for curating scented bodies and …
Thermal Sensations—Burning the Flesh of the World
Heat is an inescapable cosmological force. This thought experiment radiates around thinking thermal sensations as elemental intensities, “beings” in themselves, always moving through bodies, objects, and things, perpetually affecting and producing effects. Using infrared thermography and embracing a critical-aesthetics approach, we ignite thermal sensations, moving through the infernal city of Phoenix and the Arizona–Sonora borderlands. Maurice M…
After the Crossing: Afterlives of Found Objects in the Sonoran Desert Borderlands
Touch at a distance: Toward a Phenomenology of Film
Historic enchantments - materializing nostalgia
Efforts to remedy existential anxiety and the sense of 'homelessness' permeating modern life invariably invoke ideas and practices swirling around dwelling and nostalgia. Geographies probing the materiality of loss and memory have elaborated and critiqued nostalgia in both regressive and progressive postures. We argue that amorphous and sensual qualities of nostalgia make it a propulsive force in dwelling. Moving beyond nostalgia as a representat…
Festival and the Laughter of Being
We present a performance in festival laughter that unfolds in three movements. Movement I traces the emergence and proliferation of Renaissance “faires” in America as spectacle, a Rabelaisian landscape of pleasure and excess that speaks to nostalgia and escape as cultural elixirs. In Movement II, we sketch the history of festival and wink to Ren Fest as contemporary expression of the carnivalesque, sanitized remnants of transgression and subversi…
Movement, memory, landscape: An Excursion in Non-Representational Thought
Generational consciousness and retirement communities
Time and collective historical experience loom large in the formation of generations. I argue that spatial proximity cements generational consciousness among seniors in Arizona retirement communities who identify themselves as members of the Second World War generation. The argument twins Karl Mannheim's social‐historical conception of generations and Hannah Arendt's political philosophy which underscores the space of appearance in the public rea…
These white walls: The dialectic of retirement communities
Oh, the Places They'll Go! Mobility, Place and Landscape in the Film This is Nowhere
Filmmaker Doug Hawes-Davis presents an ironic and strangely dissonant interpretation of American culture in the documentary This is Nowhere, an expose of RV travelers who circumnavigate the country "camping" in Wal-Mart parking lots. I proffer an interpretation of the film that explodes the fiction of placelessness, as nowhere serves as a poignant foil in evoking the meaning of mobility, place and landscape in America. Through ingenious editing a…
Three faces of ageism: Society, image and place
This paper elucidates and champions a spatiality perspective in social gerontology, by arguing that relationships between older people and the spaces and places they inhabit illuminate deeply-ingrained societal attitudes and values. The trilogy of society, image and place is explored through an interpretive reading of images and scripts in ‘successful ageing’ and ‘anti-ageing’ created and promoted by the booming ‘retirement industry’ in the Unite…
The Sun City Wars: Chapter 3
A revealing indicator of social fragmentation in metropolitan America is the proliferation of common interest developments (CIDs), communities defined by restrictive covenants, deed restrictions, community associations, and citizens groups that wield substantial political influence and power. In Phoenix, large-scale retirement communities represent a conspicuous form of CID, populated by Anglo, middle, and upper-middle class elderly migrants who …
The “ageless self”? Emplacement of identities in sun belt retirement communities
Inside, outside, upside down, backward, forward, round and round: A case for ethnographic studies in migration
This article calls attention to the potential of ethnographic studies in furthering our understanding of migration and circulation systems. The dominant conceptualization of migration and migrant adjustment as a one-way journey is inadequate, as many individuals and groups forge connections and social fields across expanses of space and time. There has been insufficient attention directed toward understanding migrations as cultural events rich in…
The Magnetism of Miami: Segmented Paths in Cuban Migration
Miami is the primate city in a system of urban settlements that make up a Cuban ethnic archipelago in the United States. The city is also a national magnet, attracting Cuban migrants from metropolitan regions across the archipelago. Four large secondary cores of Cubans outside Florida serve as major “feeders” to the Miami enclave: northern New Jersey, New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Currents of migration to Miami are especially strong am…
The Circle of Migration: Attachment to Place in Aging
Despite a substantial literature in elderly migration, little is known about the experience of mobility and place in aging. In this paper we explore the meaning of home, place, and migration among elderly seasonal migrants who circulate between northern (summer) and Sunbelt (winter) residences. The central focus is on evolving attachments and relationships with place over the life course. We conceptualize the circle of migration to and from home …
Ambivalent Journey: U. S. Migration and Economic Mobility in North-Central Mexico
Seasonal Migration and Health Care
This article examines health care use and issues among seasonal migrants in an urban setting in the Sunbelt. The study, based on a survey of 230 American and Canadian snowbirds in Phoenix, Arizona, complements previous research on health care use among Canadian snowbirds in Florida. Our results show that health care use among seasonal migrants in Phoenix is substantial, and it varies by citizenship (American vs. Canadian), age, number of winter v…
Residence histories and electoral success in the Arizona legislature
This article examines the relationship between residence histories of political candidates and electoral success using a state level election in Arizona as a case study. We develop and test a model that predicts electoral outcomes (win or lose) among candidates seeking election to the Arizona House of Representatives in 1988. The model includes a measure of incumbency, political party affiliation, demographic characteristics, and four residence h…
On the Road Again: Seasonal Migration to a Sunbelt Metropolis
Seasonal migration to Sunbelt locales in recreational vehicles (RVs) has emerged as a major form of cyclical movement among Americans and Canadians. Using Phoenix, Arizona, as a case study, this paper addresses three questions. Who participates in this lifestyle? What are their geographical and temporal patterns of migration? What are the distinguishing characteristics of RV resort communities? Results highlight that older Americans and Canadians…
Phoenix in Flux: Household Instability, Residential Mobility, and Neighborhood Change
The linkages between household instability and residential mobility underlie patterns of population change in the city. To explicate these linkages in Phoenix, Arizona, a rapidly growing Sunbelt city with high population turnover, we queried a sample of residents about their living arrangements and mobility status from 1986–88. The terms stable and unstable refer to household status; movers and stayers refer to mobility status. Results indicate t…
Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration
Labour Migration: The Internal Geographical Mobility of Labour in the Developed World
Determinants of short- and long-term mobility expectations for home owners and renters
Confusion about the role of residential satisfaction vis-a-vis structural factors in the mobility process stems from the failure to examine the determinants of mobility over varying time frames and housing tenures. Using survey data for a random sample of 580 Phoenix-area households, we test models of short-term (l year) and long-term (5 years) mobility expectations for home owners and renters. The results show that residential satisfaction media…
Inside, outside, upside down, backward, forward, round and round: A case for ethnographic studies in migration
This article calls attention to the potential of ethnographic studies in furthering our understanding of migration and circulation systems. The dominant conceptualization of migration and migrant adjustment as a one-way journey is inadequate, as many individuals and groups forge connections and social fields across expanses of space and time. There has been insufficient attention directed toward understanding migrations as cultural events rich in…
Determinants of short- and long-term mobility expectations for home owners and renters
Confusion about the role of residential satisfaction vis-a-vis structural factors in the mobility process stems from the failure to examine the determinants of mobility over varying time frames and housing tenures. Using survey data for a random sample of 580 Phoenix-area households, we test models of short-term (l year) and long-term (5 years) mobility expectations for home owners and renters. The results show that residential satisfaction media…
Three faces of ageism: Society, image and place
This paper elucidates and champions a spatiality perspective in social gerontology, by arguing that relationships between older people and the spaces and places they inhabit illuminate deeply-ingrained societal attitudes and values. The trilogy of society, image and place is explored through an interpretive reading of images and scripts in ‘successful ageing’ and ‘anti-ageing’ created and promoted by the booming ‘retirement industry’ in the Unite…
The “ageless self”? Emplacement of identities in sun belt retirement communities
Black Migration Reversal in the United States
After almost a century of net out-migration of blacks from the South to other regions the South experienced a net in-migration of blacks during the 1970s a trend that continues in the 1980s. This study examines this reversal at a regional and subregional scale by examining black interstate migration flows. The majority of southern states experienced the black migration reversal during the 1970s. Only the District of Columbia Alabama Mississippi A…
The Circle of Migration: Attachment to Place in Aging
Despite a substantial literature in elderly migration, little is known about the experience of mobility and place in aging. In this paper we explore the meaning of home, place, and migration among elderly seasonal migrants who circulate between northern (summer) and Sunbelt (winter) residences. The central focus is on evolving attachments and relationships with place over the life course. We conceptualize the circle of migration to and from home …
Movement, memory, landscape: An Excursion in Non-Representational Thought
Historic enchantments - materializing nostalgia
Efforts to remedy existential anxiety and the sense of 'homelessness' permeating modern life invariably invoke ideas and practices swirling around dwelling and nostalgia. Geographies probing the materiality of loss and memory have elaborated and critiqued nostalgia in both regressive and progressive postures. We argue that amorphous and sensual qualities of nostalgia make it a propulsive force in dwelling. Moving beyond nostalgia as a representat…
These white walls: The dialectic of retirement communities
The Magnetism of Miami: Segmented Paths in Cuban Migration
Miami is the primate city in a system of urban settlements that make up a Cuban ethnic archipelago in the United States. The city is also a national magnet, attracting Cuban migrants from metropolitan regions across the archipelago. Four large secondary cores of Cubans outside Florida serve as major “feeders” to the Miami enclave: northern New Jersey, New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Currents of migration to Miami are especially strong am…
On the Road Again: Seasonal Migration to a Sunbelt Metropolis
Seasonal migration to Sunbelt locales in recreational vehicles (RVs) has emerged as a major form of cyclical movement among Americans and Canadians. Using Phoenix, Arizona, as a case study, this paper addresses three questions. Who participates in this lifestyle? What are their geographical and temporal patterns of migration? What are the distinguishing characteristics of RV resort communities? Results highlight that older Americans and Canadians…
Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration
Thermal Sensations—Burning the Flesh of the World
Heat is an inescapable cosmological force. This thought experiment radiates around thinking thermal sensations as elemental intensities, “beings” in themselves, always moving through bodies, objects, and things, perpetually affecting and producing effects. Using infrared thermography and embracing a critical-aesthetics approach, we ignite thermal sensations, moving through the infernal city of Phoenix and the Arizona–Sonora borderlands. Maurice M…
The Sun City Wars: Chapter 3
A revealing indicator of social fragmentation in metropolitan America is the proliferation of common interest developments (CIDs), communities defined by restrictive covenants, deed restrictions, community associations, and citizens groups that wield substantial political influence and power. In Phoenix, large-scale retirement communities represent a conspicuous form of CID, populated by Anglo, middle, and upper-middle class elderly migrants who …
Ambivalent Journey: U. S. Migration and Economic Mobility in North-Central Mexico
Becoming-elemental - a thermal imaginary in the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene problematic calls for imaginative aesthetic experiments fostering more-than-human thought and sensibilities. In this thought experiment, I draw on a sensing device in conjuring a thermal imaginary that decenters the human, espying a glimpse of a strange and uncanny world-without-us. The imaginary is a speculative performance in elemental attunement - becoming-molecular, becoming-imperceptible in the generative potentia of planeta…
Metropolitan Areas as Redistributors of Population
It is argued that the spatial patterns of place-ties collectively held by potential metropolitan-to-nonmetropolitan migrants are broader than those held by potential nonmetropol itan-to-metropol itan migrants. Consistent with this argu ment, it is hypothesized that metropolitan migration fields are asymmetrical , i.e., out-migration fields are more cosmopolitan than in-migration fields for the period 1965-1 970 within the United States. The hypot…
Generational consciousness and retirement communities
Time and collective historical experience loom large in the formation of generations. I argue that spatial proximity cements generational consciousness among seniors in Arizona retirement communities who identify themselves as members of the Second World War generation. The argument twins Karl Mannheim's social‐historical conception of generations and Hannah Arendt's political philosophy which underscores the space of appearance in the public rea…
Touch at a distance: Toward a Phenomenology of Film
Oh, the Places They'll Go! Mobility, Place and Landscape in the Film This is Nowhere
Filmmaker Doug Hawes-Davis presents an ironic and strangely dissonant interpretation of American culture in the documentary This is Nowhere, an expose of RV travelers who circumnavigate the country "camping" in Wal-Mart parking lots. I proffer an interpretation of the film that explodes the fiction of placelessness, as nowhere serves as a poignant foil in evoking the meaning of mobility, place and landscape in America. Through ingenious editing a…
Phoenix in Flux: Household Instability, Residential Mobility, and Neighborhood Change
The linkages between household instability and residential mobility underlie patterns of population change in the city. To explicate these linkages in Phoenix, Arizona, a rapidly growing Sunbelt city with high population turnover, we queried a sample of residents about their living arrangements and mobility status from 1986–88. The terms stable and unstable refer to household status; movers and stayers refer to mobility status. Results indicate t…
Olfactory Attunements and Technologies: Exposing the Affective Economy of Scent
We conceive olfaction as a sense of the elemental—a term encompassing odors and the organs that detect them. Contributing to efforts in elemental thinking, we enlist olfactory attunement as a sensual and speculative mode of aesthetic orientation, an analytical frame for attending to scented matter(s) in the air. Moving in malodorous urban airs of the American Northeast, we encounter new technologies and techniques for curating scented bodies and …
Festival and the Laughter of Being
We present a performance in festival laughter that unfolds in three movements. Movement I traces the emergence and proliferation of Renaissance “faires” in America as spectacle, a Rabelaisian landscape of pleasure and excess that speaks to nostalgia and escape as cultural elixirs. In Movement II, we sketch the history of festival and wink to Ren Fest as contemporary expression of the carnivalesque, sanitized remnants of transgression and subversi…
Residence histories and electoral success in the Arizona legislature
This article examines the relationship between residence histories of political candidates and electoral success using a state level election in Arizona as a case study. We develop and test a model that predicts electoral outcomes (win or lose) among candidates seeking election to the Arizona House of Representatives in 1988. The model includes a measure of incumbency, political party affiliation, demographic characteristics, and four residence h…
The RV Resort Landscape
The recreational vehicle (RV) camp or park has traditionally served as a brief stopover point along an extended route of travel. RV parks continue to serve this function, but in some Sunbelt locales such as Phoenix, RV resorts have blossomed into seasonal retirement communities for large numbers of elderly. This photo-essay examines RV resorts as vernacular landscapes that include elements of suburbia and small town America
Metropolitan Areas as Redistributors of Population
It is argued that the spatial patterns of place-ties collectively held by potential metropolitan-to-nonmetropolitan migrants are broader than those held by potential nonmetropol itan-to-metropol itan migrants. Consistent with this argu ment, it is hypothesized that metropolitan migration fields are asymmetrical , i.e., out-migration fields are more cosmopolitan than in-migration fields for the period 1965-1 970 within the United States. The hypot…
Black Migration Reversal in the United States
After almost a century of net out-migration of blacks from the South to other regions the South experienced a net in-migration of blacks during the 1970s a trend that continues in the 1980s. This study examines this reversal at a regional and subregional scale by examining black interstate migration flows. The majority of southern states experienced the black migration reversal during the 1970s. Only the District of Columbia Alabama Mississippi A…
The RV Resort Landscape
The recreational vehicle (RV) camp or park has traditionally served as a brief stopover point along an extended route of travel. RV parks continue to serve this function, but in some Sunbelt locales such as Phoenix, RV resorts have blossomed into seasonal retirement communities for large numbers of elderly. This photo-essay examines RV resorts as vernacular landscapes that include elements of suburbia and small town America
Determinants of short- and long-term mobility expectations for home owners and renters
Confusion about the role of residential satisfaction vis-a-vis structural factors in the mobility process stems from the failure to examine the determinants of mobility over varying time frames and housing tenures. Using survey data for a random sample of 580 Phoenix-area households, we test models of short-term (l year) and long-term (5 years) mobility expectations for home owners and renters. The results show that residential satisfaction media…
On the Road Again: Seasonal Migration to a Sunbelt Metropolis
Seasonal migration to Sunbelt locales in recreational vehicles (RVs) has emerged as a major form of cyclical movement among Americans and Canadians. Using Phoenix, Arizona, as a case study, this paper addresses three questions. Who participates in this lifestyle? What are their geographical and temporal patterns of migration? What are the distinguishing characteristics of RV resort communities? Results highlight that older Americans and Canadians…
Phoenix in Flux: Household Instability, Residential Mobility, and Neighborhood Change
The linkages between household instability and residential mobility underlie patterns of population change in the city. To explicate these linkages in Phoenix, Arizona, a rapidly growing Sunbelt city with high population turnover, we queried a sample of residents about their living arrangements and mobility status from 1986–88. The terms stable and unstable refer to household status; movers and stayers refer to mobility status. Results indicate t…
Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration
Labour Migration: The Internal Geographical Mobility of Labour in the Developed World
Residence histories and electoral success in the Arizona legislature
This article examines the relationship between residence histories of political candidates and electoral success using a state level election in Arizona as a case study. We develop and test a model that predicts electoral outcomes (win or lose) among candidates seeking election to the Arizona House of Representatives in 1988. The model includes a measure of incumbency, political party affiliation, demographic characteristics, and four residence h…
Seasonal Migration and Health Care
This article examines health care use and issues among seasonal migrants in an urban setting in the Sunbelt. The study, based on a survey of 230 American and Canadian snowbirds in Phoenix, Arizona, complements previous research on health care use among Canadian snowbirds in Florida. Our results show that health care use among seasonal migrants in Phoenix is substantial, and it varies by citizenship (American vs. Canadian), age, number of winter v…
The Circle of Migration: Attachment to Place in Aging
Despite a substantial literature in elderly migration, little is known about the experience of mobility and place in aging. In this paper we explore the meaning of home, place, and migration among elderly seasonal migrants who circulate between northern (summer) and Sunbelt (winter) residences. The central focus is on evolving attachments and relationships with place over the life course. We conceptualize the circle of migration to and from home …
Ambivalent Journey: U. S. Migration and Economic Mobility in North-Central Mexico
The Magnetism of Miami: Segmented Paths in Cuban Migration
Miami is the primate city in a system of urban settlements that make up a Cuban ethnic archipelago in the United States. The city is also a national magnet, attracting Cuban migrants from metropolitan regions across the archipelago. Four large secondary cores of Cubans outside Florida serve as major “feeders” to the Miami enclave: northern New Jersey, New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Currents of migration to Miami are especially strong am…
The “ageless self”? Emplacement of identities in sun belt retirement communities
Inside, outside, upside down, backward, forward, round and round: A case for ethnographic studies in migration
This article calls attention to the potential of ethnographic studies in furthering our understanding of migration and circulation systems. The dominant conceptualization of migration and migrant adjustment as a one-way journey is inadequate, as many individuals and groups forge connections and social fields across expanses of space and time. There has been insufficient attention directed toward understanding migrations as cultural events rich in…
The Sun City Wars: Chapter 3
A revealing indicator of social fragmentation in metropolitan America is the proliferation of common interest developments (CIDs), communities defined by restrictive covenants, deed restrictions, community associations, and citizens groups that wield substantial political influence and power. In Phoenix, large-scale retirement communities represent a conspicuous form of CID, populated by Anglo, middle, and upper-middle class elderly migrants who …
Three faces of ageism: Society, image and place
This paper elucidates and champions a spatiality perspective in social gerontology, by arguing that relationships between older people and the spaces and places they inhabit illuminate deeply-ingrained societal attitudes and values. The trilogy of society, image and place is explored through an interpretive reading of images and scripts in ‘successful ageing’ and ‘anti-ageing’ created and promoted by the booming ‘retirement industry’ in the Unite…
These white walls: The dialectic of retirement communities
Oh, the Places They'll Go! Mobility, Place and Landscape in the Film This is Nowhere
Filmmaker Doug Hawes-Davis presents an ironic and strangely dissonant interpretation of American culture in the documentary This is Nowhere, an expose of RV travelers who circumnavigate the country "camping" in Wal-Mart parking lots. I proffer an interpretation of the film that explodes the fiction of placelessness, as nowhere serves as a poignant foil in evoking the meaning of mobility, place and landscape in America. Through ingenious editing a…
Generational consciousness and retirement communities
Time and collective historical experience loom large in the formation of generations. I argue that spatial proximity cements generational consciousness among seniors in Arizona retirement communities who identify themselves as members of the Second World War generation. The argument twins Karl Mannheim's social‐historical conception of generations and Hannah Arendt's political philosophy which underscores the space of appearance in the public rea…
Movement, memory, landscape: An Excursion in Non-Representational Thought
Festival and the Laughter of Being
We present a performance in festival laughter that unfolds in three movements. Movement I traces the emergence and proliferation of Renaissance “faires” in America as spectacle, a Rabelaisian landscape of pleasure and excess that speaks to nostalgia and escape as cultural elixirs. In Movement II, we sketch the history of festival and wink to Ren Fest as contemporary expression of the carnivalesque, sanitized remnants of transgression and subversi…
After the Crossing: Afterlives of Found Objects in the Sonoran Desert Borderlands
Touch at a distance: Toward a Phenomenology of Film
Historic enchantments - materializing nostalgia
Efforts to remedy existential anxiety and the sense of 'homelessness' permeating modern life invariably invoke ideas and practices swirling around dwelling and nostalgia. Geographies probing the materiality of loss and memory have elaborated and critiqued nostalgia in both regressive and progressive postures. We argue that amorphous and sensual qualities of nostalgia make it a propulsive force in dwelling. Moving beyond nostalgia as a representat…
Geography (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Political science (15 works) · Aesthetics (11 works) · Art (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · History (8 works)